"Drugs swoops have little impact"

Woo hoo! They've finally noticed!

Police are fighting a losing battle against drugs crime, with seizures having little impact on cutting supply or reducing demand, research suggests.

The government clearly weren't happy with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, who recently concluded that there was no point in increasing criminal penalties for possession of cannabis, and were of course promptly ignored.

So now we've got the UK Drug Policy Commission, which is basically a bunch of Labour luvvies (i.e. I've never heard of any of them except The Fink), and they come up with the same conclusions.

This is sort of the opposite of 'going native'. The gummint sets up these quangos, lets them know in no uncertain terms what sort of conclusions they want them to reach, sits back ... and nope, sorry, the answer is unchanged and it's not the one the gummint wants.

Next time they might as well play safe and staff it with tabloid editors.